Michael Foster > Quotes

“The formula is simple: Find a church that will disciple you. Submit yourself to it. Grow up.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“union of male and female in one flesh drives mankind forward in their created purpose of bringing heaven to earth by establishing God’s rule.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“It is not a question of whether men will be ruling, but which ones and how.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“Because as a man goes, so goes his household; as a household goes, so goes the Church; and as the Church goes, so goes society.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“A church in which the influence of women is not checked by masculine rule—where, indeed, it is instead elevated and amplified—will always descend into mystical emotional chaos.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“sharing in the common goal of winning a football game does not eliminate the distinctions between the players. Rather, it is why the team is divided into those positions in the first place.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“Rather, we are united in the bond of marriage, and this bond exists to establish a community that builds upon itself. The bond expands to encompass more than the original couple; yet rather than reducing them, it instead magnifies them by establishing them at the head of a new community.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“In our day, the technique has been perfected with porn and, to a lesser extent, video games. Men who are hooked up like junkies to the dopamine drip of virtual fornication and fake dominion are worthless for the task of being fruitful in real life and imposing genuine order on their worlds.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“Patriarchy is inevitable. God has built it into the fabric of the cosmos. It is part of the divine created order. You could as soon smash it as you could smash gravity. It is natural and irrevocable. Cicero was right: “Custom will never conquer nature; for it is always invincible.”1 Men were made to rule. They always have and always will. Nothing can change that. Nothing will. It is not a question of whether men will be ruling, but which ones and how. This is what patriarchy is: the natural rulership of men. The term comes from Greek and means simply “father rule.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“It is precisely because he is dangerous that they value his presence in the family—not because he is dangerous to them but because he is dangerous to the sin and chaos that threatens the harmony of the household. He is the center that holds their world together; if he were not dangerous, he could not defend that world against everything that endangers it and threatens to pull it apart.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

“When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen: They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.”
― Michael Foster, It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity